AI passive: I didn't play a lot since the last patch, but I've been playing more recently, and In my recent custom campaign matches, the enemy AI has seemed very oddly passive, even when the auto-resolve give me odds of under 20% to win. The enemy starts out with lots of armoured units and I only have battle forge ones, they start building a Battle Forge and some turrets and just sit in their base, making little or no effort to expand. Maybe it's because I've doubled the recruit cost multiplier, but even on Hard if I have only a 5% chance to win an auto-resolve, the AI shouldn't be that scared of me.
I found out what the problem was. It seems that the difficulty under Options > Gameplay was set to Casual, and I think I know why. I just tested something:
Bug: When loading a game, the difficulty is set to the current difficulty, not the difficulty the game was saved as.I had been playing a game on Hard difficulty. I saved the game and quit to the main menu and started a new game, on Casual difficulty. I checked the options menu once I started, it was indeed set to Casual. I quit back to the main menu again, and loaded the game I just saved on Hard difficulty. I checked the difficulty, and it was set to Casual.
That stupid little bug has been giving me grief for weeks! I thought the AI was messed up, because I know I had started those games on on Hard.
